The City of Batangas took over from Tanauan City as the most competitive city in Batangas Province according to the 2017 Cities and Municipalities Competitiveness Index released last month by the National Competitiveness Council. Lipa City is ranked third, as it was last year.

The rankings of this article are taken from the aggregated data on all the country’s cities, regardless of classification, i.e. highly urbanized or component city. The lowest rank is 145.

This year’s index features the inclusion of a new pillar, that of resilience, which according to the Department of Trade and Industries web site “embodies the capacities of the LGUs to continuously function, so that the people living and working in that specific community, particularly the poor and vulnerable, survive and thrive no matter what disasters they will encounter.”

In previous years’ surveys, there were only three pillars that were measured: economic dynamism, government efficiency and infrastructure.

ECONOMIC DYNAMISM

Batangas, presently ranked 17th nationwide, continues to be the province’s most economically dynamic city, as it was in the 2016 survey. Lipa took over from Tanauan at second, and is behind Batangas City by a mere .0965. All the province’s three cities are impressively ranked inside the Top 50 nationwide as far as Economic Dynamism is concerned. However, all three cities scored far lower than they did last year.

Economic Dynamism

National Rank

Score

Batangas City

17

5.5965

Lipa City

23

5.5089

Tanauan City

49

4.6184

GOVERNMENT EFFICIENCY

Tanauan City has the most efficient local government among the three cities of Batangas and is ranked an impressive 26th nationwide. Batangas City is 60 places down at 86 while Lipa City is a notch further down at 87. All three cities had better scores in this pillar last year.

Government Efficiency

National Rank

Score

Tanauan City

26

11.9032

Batangas City

86

10.5322

Lipa City

87

10.4936

INFRASTRUCTURE

The province’s two bigger cities, Batangas and Lipa, ranked considerably higher than Tanauan in terms of infrastructure. Batangas City is ranked 65th nationwide while Lipa City is five places further down at 70. Tanauan City, meanwhile, is at 108th. As with the two previous pillars, all three cities of Batangas scored better last year.

Infrastructure

National Rank

Score

Batangas City

65

6.4122

Lipa City

70

6.3142

Tanauan City

108

5.6677

RESILIENCE

Finally, in the new pillar that is Resilience, both Batangas City and Tanauan City far outperform Lipa City. Batangas City is 21st nationwide while Tanauan City is at 35. Lipa City is way down the nationwide table at 96.

Resilience

National Rank

Score

Batangas City

21

16.8043

Tanauan City

35

16.4329

Lipa City

96

15.7621

OVERALL RANKING

To cap, Batangas City wrested the title of the province’s most competitive city by emerging on top in the pillars Economic Dynamism, Infrastructure and Resilience. Tanauan City, last year’s most competitive city in Batangas, topped the Government Efficiency Survey. Only Lipa City did not top any of the four identified pillars. Batangas City is ranked 33rd nationwide while Tanauan City and Lipa City are at 44th and 55th, respectively.

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